Course Description

This course will investigate the ways in which artists have presented narratives in the public realm and the organizations that have made the presentation of those works central to their curatorial practices over the last 40 years. Focusing on recent works presented in New York’s public spaces by Creative Time, The Public Art Fund, the Percent for Art Program, Arts for Transit and other non-profits organizations, this course will look at what it meant to tell stories and open discourses that challenged or interrogated widely-held value systems, the events and the politics of their time. In addition to the specifics of current and other key works and projects, we will discuss the conditions that governed the development of public performance, temporary and permanent installations, the ways in which those works were influenced by public approval processes and governmental agencies, media coverage and community response. Each student’s final project will be an on-line proposal for an exhibition that conveys a “narrative“ developed in the context of this course, referencing other relevant works .

Monday, September 10, 2018

Election Tampering: Rachel Maddow Reflection



This week, I followed the news cycle about the federal investigation of Paul Manafort and others linked to the Trump campaign via the Maddow Show. As a consumer and citizen, I read most of my news, prefer articles and retrospective theory to the emotional drain of Twitter feeds full of tragedy and political media. Something I noticed this week, like much of the coverage I’ve seen about the potential for Russian collusion, is the American left’s quickness to condemn immigration atrocities born of the colonization and election tampering of what is considered the global south, but the fear and disgust around Russian input in US elections. Both cases I believe are both impactful and abhorrent, but I also believe that the violence and harm enacted by the Trump administration can be better interrogated by acknowledging the legacy of dominance of the United States of America.



Assignment due September 4, 2018
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